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but without that law whenever would have cut our business started. here we are 30 years later and have been able to make a living, raise our kids, but to enter school. and now it's time that i get a chance to pay for work. i have worked with other small businesses, over the years with artists of the members started. now i find myself working also with farmers and local food businesses. the small business skills that are needed and the capitol that is needed is very similar. this low money project looks for small farmers and local food businesses that support farming. for example, today we are here at sweet cheeks bakery. the most marvelous story. when she first approached slow money for $40,000, we were just getting started. we had one gun 2011 loan. we had done nothing even remotely close. unfortunately we had to turn her way. it is kind of an idea. we think it is good. i just wish we could help, but weekend. year later she came back. by then we found other people had also wanted. we have done several of them. this point she only needed for or $5,00
but without that law whenever would have cut our business started. here we are 30 years later and have been able to make a living, raise our kids, but to enter school. and now it's time that i get a chance to pay for work. i have worked with other small businesses, over the years with artists of the members started. now i find myself working also with farmers and local food businesses. the small business skills that are needed and the capitol that is needed is very similar. this low money...
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the first step in and develop into the international refugee law and policy announcing international office for refugees for women 1938 nobel peace prize. he year and to rally members of the non bolshevik russian diaspora and wished a russian could do something akin to lindbergh's recent flight across the atlantic. it was up to him to do and equivalent, to go around the world alone by bicycle. luckily he didn't have to do that. he departed shanghai on a battered secondhand bicycle but upgraded to a new bicycle in bangkok and the battered secondhand motorcycle in singapore. benefactor gave him a brand new aerial motorcycle in karachi plus a letter that guaranteed parts and assistance from aerial offices around the world. several in his public accounts thank the worldwide services of the ymca, shell oil and the firestone company and he depended on the global availability of gasoline, oil and food, the array of industrial goods and services that were now spread almost everywhere in the world. like the cycling parsees with the saudis in diaspora the encouragement of many white russians.
the first step in and develop into the international refugee law and policy announcing international office for refugees for women 1938 nobel peace prize. he year and to rally members of the non bolshevik russian diaspora and wished a russian could do something akin to lindbergh's recent flight across the atlantic. it was up to him to do and equivalent, to go around the world alone by bicycle. luckily he didn't have to do that. he departed shanghai on a battered secondhand bicycle but upgraded...
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my oldest just graduated from law school, and he stood in a court should and is married with two kids and one on the way. my second son is married with two children and he
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they were -- the second city in georgia to pass resolutions -- pass a law. the city council passed unanimously with every head of household that must have a gun. so we had two members of nelson, residence, a council members said that the way, you know, people on the highway would pass by if there were going to commit a crime because they know everyone has a gun. then we also have gone lamarck who was opposed to this and said to are you going to have me arrested? there are categories. some we headed debate about what this means. >> host: the key for holding. >> hello. the first and allowed to do is say thank you. i love democracy elena think it is a very important program. i'm going to have -- i had to quit questions. he said there is something in the title of your last book about hope, and i was wondering where you look and see signs of foul. and secondly, you mentioned earlier that you don't think the lack of voting in this country is due to a -- what do you think it is due to? thank you. >> you know, i had an interest -- first of all, thank you for your co
they were -- the second city in georgia to pass resolutions -- pass a law. the city council passed unanimously with every head of household that must have a gun. so we had two members of nelson, residence, a council members said that the way, you know, people on the highway would pass by if there were going to commit a crime because they know everyone has a gun. then we also have gone lamarck who was opposed to this and said to are you going to have me arrested? there are categories. some we...
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i traveled to law school to account the bar association groups. i travel to other kinds of groups as well, because i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about how it makes me so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with the people i can get them to understand our legal system a little bit better, i hope that they will become better citizens. that they will be more active citizens, and working in the team unity and improving it for everyone. so we're busy on lots of different things, not just him being in the courtroom. that our that lawyers have argued cases before us, it's a microcosm of the work that we put into the case. >> the most popular question submitted was how do the justices get along? [laughter] now, i know that relations among you all are deeply collegial, so i'm wondering, what are the conference rituals and the ways you all build relationships? >> it starts with respect. if you come into this process, appreciating that every single justice on the court as a passion and they love for the constitution and our
i traveled to law school to account the bar association groups. i travel to other kinds of groups as well, because i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about how it makes me so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with the people i can get them to understand our legal system a little bit better, i hope that they will become better citizens. that they will be more active citizens, and working in the team unity and improving it for everyone. so we're busy on lots of...
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law. we have privacy law. we have law designed to protect a national security. we have and espionage act. we have lots of laws which either touch on or intersect with or have tension with the first amendment. the real issue again and again is not whether there are some limits that can be put. the real issue is what's the rule and what's the exception? if the rule is really going to be the press can publish what it likes, you can do what you like by way of verbal expression, you can burn the american flag, burn a bible, burn the american constitution as a way of expressing how strongly you feel about something or other, but that, sure, there can be situations, but they would be very few and very rare in which speech can ever be stopped up front before you say it, and even when the government wants to punish you, we have to be very careful not to allow punishment except in cases where the speech is so likely to do harm of such mag magnitude and o quickly that we're ready to trump the first a
law. we have privacy law. we have law designed to protect a national security. we have and espionage act. we have lots of laws which either touch on or intersect with or have tension with the first amendment. the real issue again and again is not whether there are some limits that can be put. the real issue is what's the rule and what's the exception? if the rule is really going to be the press can publish what it likes, you can do what you like by way of verbal expression, you can burn the...
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federal law will be state lac come. constiodtional all the federal law. trees will be federal law. there is a h sora rifi in creatad.e constiodtion. and so when there is a particular a fyou be found in the constitution the judges have the authority to artiluslate. so do mommbejudge of cony clue. when there is another rule of law to be found in the constiodtion in the plant -- i litical branches are supposed to have the file sent. one of the great claicues in i wosden clurisprudencen the people who really believe in the ratiolitle, that the constitution shns when it is al the people who think, well, now that we he a the structure of federalism versus the 1791 version ever arose in your conversation. >> welcome to the topic came of often. 1789 to 1791. will we actually have, that was the day of the last amendment which was the final ratification in 1992 were one of the 12 amendments of madison in the house proposed in 1790. the major changes, huge changes in later parts, the adoption of the income tax, it fundamentally change the role of the federal government's visa be the states. t
federal law will be state lac come. constiodtional all the federal law. trees will be federal law. there is a h sora rifi in creatad.e constiodtion. and so when there is a particular a fyou be found in the constitution the judges have the authority to artiluslate. so do mommbejudge of cony clue. when there is another rule of law to be found in the constiodtion in the plant -- i litical branches are supposed to have the file sent. one of the great claicues in i wosden clurisprudencen the people...
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after working two years in the law firm logan returned to the yale law school in 2010 as a scholar and began to turn the paper into the book that you see tonight appropriately we have professor estrich with us to comment on the book. he is a highly distinguished member of the yale law school factory and covering of wide range of legal topics and of previous book talk series. according to recently published ready the professor is one of the most known legal scholars in the universe just one or two others have been cited more than him. that was probably of mistakes. [laughter] he is dynamic and innovative teacher and wonderful for young scholars like logan. so now i will turn it over. >> did you very much. of with like to add that he is fitting for this talk because he is a descendant of george s. courage the godfather of our nation with george washington's mother was just 14 george estrich to a kid in so named her firstborn son after him. so thank you for coming today. [laughter] >> wait a minute. >> logan is quite right but he is also the descendant of distinguished forebears'. that we
after working two years in the law firm logan returned to the yale law school in 2010 as a scholar and began to turn the paper into the book that you see tonight appropriately we have professor estrich with us to comment on the book. he is a highly distinguished member of the yale law school factory and covering of wide range of legal topics and of previous book talk series. according to recently published ready the professor is one of the most known legal scholars in the universe just one or...
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education and a return to this very basic force law virtues and it doesn't have to be moralistic. but the things that make it easier to get ahead like marriage and work and discipline . so i will leave you with one last passage from lincoln. long before anyone had heard of him, he talked about his speech as a young man in springfield and he talked about how even then this week and immature country -- that we are convertible to military assault. he can get the greatest general that anyone has ever known, and they could not take a step on the blue ridge mountains and they could not get a foot in the spirit of the night went on to say that if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. as a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide. estimate you that we should resolve to it. thank you so much. [applause] [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. >> rich lowrey, thank you so much. ladies and gentlemen, he has agreed to take questions. as was mentioned, this is being broadcast live to the world. >> keep it clean. [applause] >> we hav
education and a return to this very basic force law virtues and it doesn't have to be moralistic. but the things that make it easier to get ahead like marriage and work and discipline . so i will leave you with one last passage from lincoln. long before anyone had heard of him, he talked about his speech as a young man in springfield and he talked about how even then this week and immature country -- that we are convertible to military assault. he can get the greatest general that anyone has...
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fain writes in his but that the law lacks passion. the law lacks a motion, justice is neutered. and i disagree with that. any trial lawyer will tell you that trials are great promise filled with emotion and are very much has a role for promotion in the law. you cannot decide what the law is based upon feelings or emotions. you have to look at the cases and the statutes to decide whato the law is, but there certainly is an area of the law where it is important for a motion to come into play and sentencing is certainly one of them. and i don'think, by the way, that victims are relegated to the back row of the court room. it is true that they cannot be equal partners with the prosecutors, but i think prosecutors give them great deference. they want their input on the federal side. we have the crime victims' protection act. the victims have a right to speak, not just at sentencing, but that other parts of the case in the madoff case a number of victims wanted to speak at the guilty plea. some of them objected to my accepting the guilty plea because they wanted everything aired out,
fain writes in his but that the law lacks passion. the law lacks a motion, justice is neutered. and i disagree with that. any trial lawyer will tell you that trials are great promise filled with emotion and are very much has a role for promotion in the law. you cannot decide what the law is based upon feelings or emotions. you have to look at the cases and the statutes to decide whato the law is, but there certainly is an area of the law where it is important for a motion to come into play and...
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twelve years ago i was living in new york city and i had just graduated from law school. i was actually working at a small workers center in long island, new york, and i was actually organizing factory workers and custodial workers and even some restaurant workers. every evening i come back into into manhattan or brooklyn where i lived. and i would enjoy the most amazing cuisine that new york city has to offer. i would eat great asian fusion food, vegetarian, vegan, raw food, anything and everything. i was definitely a foodie. and as a new yorker, sometimes you eat out three times a day. and i would do that. i was definitely a foodie. but i have to admit that in all those years of eating out prior to 12 years ago, i cannot actually describe to you one person who touched my food, one who cooked at a product my table. those people were invisible to me. i would argue that that is true for most all americans and that actually americans eat out, more frequently than anyone else on earth. and it isn't just the frequency with which we eat out. it is those moments that we actuall
twelve years ago i was living in new york city and i had just graduated from law school. i was actually working at a small workers center in long island, new york, and i was actually organizing factory workers and custodial workers and even some restaurant workers. every evening i come back into into manhattan or brooklyn where i lived. and i would enjoy the most amazing cuisine that new york city has to offer. i would eat great asian fusion food, vegetarian, vegan, raw food, anything and...
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i don't think it's happening at that kind of black-and-white fashion where you read direct laws that separate commercial frank -- banking and consumer banking. what is happening is in a very different way it's happening before our very eyes. one of my favorite people is the former said president of kansas city tom connick who is a big advocate of having financial institutions they specialize institution and when they were specialized institutions we have the best financial system in the world. the financial capital has been one of our best exports. not everyone may agree with that but what is happening now as you have capital requirements that are keeping certain banks out of businesses so you are effectively kind of doing it the hard way and the banks are fighting for regulators to then nail. i don't know that it's the best possible situation but we are going in that direction whether the banks like it or not -- they don't like it. what you don't have on the flip side is regulators are being very successful about getting the big banks smaller. with it are venting is a small things f
i don't think it's happening at that kind of black-and-white fashion where you read direct laws that separate commercial frank -- banking and consumer banking. what is happening is in a very different way it's happening before our very eyes. one of my favorite people is the former said president of kansas city tom connick who is a big advocate of having financial institutions they specialize institution and when they were specialized institutions we have the best financial system in the world....
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they are the law of the land and so on. it sounds to me like even though washington's powers grows, he did have a republican understanding of the job, which required him to be very attentive to the commitments made by the nation. in the 1770s we were not in a position to make international commitment that we did and they didn't have a lot of statutes on the book. but would you not say one of the lessons of washington's experience is the commander-in-chief has a constitutional obligation to take seriously the commitment the nation has made and the convention against torture. not to mention statutes that congress has passed so on and so forth. >> absolutely. washington was very eager to catapult us into this realm of nations and it is important to have their act dean is a good city said. he thought the united states and the shining light of democracy and the public would abide by the entire principles. it's important for the commander-in-chief to be looking at the commitment we make. >> opinions about canada. [inaudible] [lau
they are the law of the land and so on. it sounds to me like even though washington's powers grows, he did have a republican understanding of the job, which required him to be very attentive to the commitments made by the nation. in the 1770s we were not in a position to make international commitment that we did and they didn't have a lot of statutes on the book. but would you not say one of the lessons of washington's experience is the commander-in-chief has a constitutional obligation to take...
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my sister-in-law, my best friend. i grew up around teachers and having an incredible respect for the difficult job that they have every day. and i still surrounded by teachers to this day. and i think that it is because i have such respect for teachers and told them in such regard i have a tremendous believe for what they can do and the power that they have, and i refuse to believe what many folks these days say which is if kids are coming from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing the schools can do. i roundly reject that notion. i think that when children are in the classrooms of truly effective teachers even despite the fact they may face a lot of obstacles those kids can achieve the highest levels and so we should aspire to nothing short as a nation making sure every single kid is in the classroom with a highly effective teacher every single day. it's no less than what we would want for our own children and nothing different than we should want for the nation's kids. >> michelle, if the united states s
my sister-in-law, my best friend. i grew up around teachers and having an incredible respect for the difficult job that they have every day. and i still surrounded by teachers to this day. and i think that it is because i have such respect for teachers and told them in such regard i have a tremendous believe for what they can do and the power that they have, and i refuse to believe what many folks these days say which is if kids are coming from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing...
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and informal governments, not an executive authority with a mandate telling people what to do through law, but a group of cities and mayors and councilors and citizens working together across the border is voluntarily developing best practice this come exporting, and urban virtues to solve problems that they have proven they are no longer able to take ^. i won't bore you with here because this kind of boring. when i can name for you the inner city networks that are already on operation of an important business around the globe you would both be shocked and suppress a long on a because the names are kind of boring and bureaucratic but the reality is quite extraordinary. one of the most important institutions nobody has ever heard of, for example, is the united cities and local governments. 3,000 cities and local authorities that meet globally every year and the network cities are not work in the environment, transportation, immigration security and a number of other issues. i hadn't heard of it two years ago. i got too many people here other than their urban specialists in the room have he
and informal governments, not an executive authority with a mandate telling people what to do through law, but a group of cities and mayors and councilors and citizens working together across the border is voluntarily developing best practice this come exporting, and urban virtues to solve problems that they have proven they are no longer able to take ^. i won't bore you with here because this kind of boring. when i can name for you the inner city networks that are already on operation of an...
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if you ever wait for law enforcement to solve your problem you have already lost terry law enforcement has no training in pharmacology, then no training in behavioral science. their training is to go after criminals and lot them up. >> and sometimes there are presumptions about those people they are locking up based on this notion that black people in particular are more likely to be in boston's drugs than other crimes. so jump on them before they have a chance to act. let me point out one of your experiences. you aren't your ph.d. in neuroscience in 1996 then you said that year you were the only black male that earn that degree. if you went to to the national institute of health to do some research. tell us about that experience you had where you came face-to-face with assumptions that were made about you as a black male. >> you are describing an experience i had which i was subjected to an impromptu lineup now, we all have these kinds of experiences and i am kind of reluctant to even talk about it publicly, these kinds of things because you all could tell me your stories. this partic
if you ever wait for law enforcement to solve your problem you have already lost terry law enforcement has no training in pharmacology, then no training in behavioral science. their training is to go after criminals and lot them up. >> and sometimes there are presumptions about those people they are locking up based on this notion that black people in particular are more likely to be in boston's drugs than other crimes. so jump on them before they have a chance to act. let me point out...
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the commissioners probably the most prominent law enforcement in the city. they are worried about their legacies and here is adrian schoolcraft's giving a completely different narrative to the last eight years in the police department. and i just wanted to mention adrian's work has been very significant. not in terms of him getting people indicted for how he was treated but in terms of affecting the dialogue in the city and the best example of that is that his tapes were played in the landmark stop interest files floyd versus new york. floyd versus the city of new york and the judge in that case described the tapes as smoking gun evidence of civil rights violations. i am told that there is going to be a decision in the case on in this week which might result for the first in memory of federal monitor being appointed to oversee the police department and that is a historic thing. in that respect he has had some success. just a couple of things and other characters in the book. there is another character in the book who went through a very similar thing in the
the commissioners probably the most prominent law enforcement in the city. they are worried about their legacies and here is adrian schoolcraft's giving a completely different narrative to the last eight years in the police department. and i just wanted to mention adrian's work has been very significant. not in terms of him getting people indicted for how he was treated but in terms of affecting the dialogue in the city and the best example of that is that his tapes were played in the landmark...
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now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tipped minimum wage of $2.13 in the regular minimum wage of $7.25. the u.s. department of labor report and 84% violation rates with regard to employers actually making up that difference and in fact in claudia's case the ihop mega-corporation even though it is legal said we don't want to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference so we are going to report that you are earning $7.25 regardless of what you actually earn. which means claudia was taxed at $7.25 and received a paste of every week is said this is not a paycheck. when you earn $2.13 or $3.63 your wages are so low they go entirely to taxes and you live off of your tips. claudia lived off of her tips which were sometimes $5 an hour, sometimes $4 an hour and sometimes $0 an hour when she was doing side work for the restaurant was slow. claudia was hungry. she said i'm ashamed to admit it but i would wait to get to the restaurant to be my pancakes because i couldn't afford to e might other women who ar
now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tipped minimum wage of $2.13 in the regular minimum wage of $7.25. the u.s. department of labor report and 84% violation rates with regard to employers actually making up that difference and in fact in claudia's case the ihop mega-corporation even though it is legal said we don't want to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference so we are going to report that you are...
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now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tip minimum wage of 2.13 and the regular minimum wage of 7.25. the u.s. department of labor reports an 84% violation rate with regard to employers actually making up that difference. and, in fact, in claudia's case, the ihop, mega corporate that it is and even though it is legal, said to claudia we don't want to have to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference, so we're going to report that you're earning $7.25 regardless of what you actually earn. which means claudia was taxed at 7.25, and like most tipped workers, received a pay stub every week that said this is not a paycheck. and it says zero. because when you earn 2.13 or 3.63 as any tipped worker will know, your wages are so low, they go entirely to taxes, and you live off of your tips. and claudia lived off of her tips which were sometimes $5 an hour, sometimes $4 an hour, sometimes zero dollars an hour when she was doing side work or the restaurant was slow. and claudia was hungry. she said i'm ash
now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tip minimum wage of 2.13 and the regular minimum wage of 7.25. the u.s. department of labor reports an 84% violation rate with regard to employers actually making up that difference. and, in fact, in claudia's case, the ihop, mega corporate that it is and even though it is legal, said to claudia we don't want to have to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference, so...
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had gone under water but you see the effort reemerged community is and the few years back harvard's law school set up a legal clinic begin to work with the community organization. then they begin working with the creative community union and it was a tremendous success. says sosa had a half a million mortgage survey retaking it to induce site 200,000 will be far less but then to sell it back to the homeowner that goes down then they saw of the profit sharing agreement and everybody wins. i have seen things like that. and actually i argue that it could be done there is the faith that they could not build the could public housing stock by taking over distressed properties to have them rent the property or buy it back with the rates. if they rent it every month the percentage would be used to rebuild the mortgage a mistake then they could buy the property back. what can be dead around thinking it housing. i did not speak specifically to that. [laughter] the. >> thank you for your book in your patience but never like to ring gauge about empathy a vicos more deeply say you acknowledge. it is
had gone under water but you see the effort reemerged community is and the few years back harvard's law school set up a legal clinic begin to work with the community organization. then they begin working with the creative community union and it was a tremendous success. says sosa had a half a million mortgage survey retaking it to induce site 200,000 will be far less but then to sell it back to the homeowner that goes down then they saw of the profit sharing agreement and everybody wins. i have...
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i think that has a damaging effect on law enforcement. tips come from the best people in the community, a vested interest in the community, their business is there, family is there, they worship there. because of the cutting off of information through this -- through the fbi's aggressive stance in muslim communities, they limited the amount of information they get and flow of information they get to the informants they pay, and they have a source to provide information saying, hey, there's a terrorist here we believe has been suspected of being part of terrorism and that creates a sting operation. the question is then, like, is it possible we'll miss cases? possible there really will be a terrorist in the united states? he will be trying to hide among an active community in the united states, worshiping in a mosque, and muslims say he looks suspicious, and fear he would -- then fear they don't want to provide the information to law enforcement? what we know antedotely, they inserted an informanet in a mosque in orange con, california, and
i think that has a damaging effect on law enforcement. tips come from the best people in the community, a vested interest in the community, their business is there, family is there, they worship there. because of the cutting off of information through this -- through the fbi's aggressive stance in muslim communities, they limited the amount of information they get and flow of information they get to the informants they pay, and they have a source to provide information saying, hey, there's a...
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spokesman for five different companies site for prison on tv and radio i a speaker when the largest law firms and lost a guess i'm the only dawn lawyers spokesman the only guy who is not a lawyer i have a quite a few web businesses simon much producer in their wake up in the mortgage income up with an idea and put my own money behind it there are not allowed to people like that anymore i called them riverboat gamblers. and there is about 25 million. that is the ultimate obama survival guide that is to waits in line every day get 50 or one hedgy meals per day of small-business owners that say thank you. people think it is of book that a tax obama one-third tells you what we're facing. the other two-thirds are fis of what you can do to invest in the second term and make many even though he destroys the american economy for. >> host: what are some of your businesses and what should people do? >> first of all, but the number one program is coast avengers started my career that has the vegas oddsmaker they put my 180-pound granite started the sidewalk there are 60 people in the world who hav
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. >> next on booktv from the 201 3 book fair, a conversation about drug laws. karl hart, author of "high price: a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society." this is about an hour and 15 minutes. .. okay. is everybody hearing me? hi, how are you? dr. hart, you're laying a really heavy one on us here with this book, "high price." there's a lot i want to talk to you about. and, hopefully, raise some of the issues that people in our audience are also curious about. let me start with the title itself. what is the high price to which you refer, and who is paying that price? >> first of all, i just want to say thank you all for coming out. i know you all could be doing something on this hot day in new york. so thank you all for joining us. so "high price," what's the title? some of you all may have heard or seen some of the sort of publicity around the book. i am the first tenured african-american scientist at columbia. and when that's the case, one must pay a price. and in the book i'm saying that the pric
. >> next on booktv from the 201 3 book fair, a conversation about drug laws. karl hart, author of "high price: a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society." this is about an hour and 15 minutes. .. okay. is everybody hearing me? hi, how are you? dr. hart, you're laying a really heavy one on us here with this book, "high price." there's a lot i want to talk to you about. and, hopefully, raise some of the...
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so that is law. in terms of other countries, the research, there are pretty good documentation is about this, which country is somewhat. pretty good, like malaysia has the legislation. in south asia, pakistan has the strongest. they also have amendments. bangladesh has amendments. afghanistan also as amendments. the scandinavian countries also have very strong legislation, and that is working well to. i also make a comment about the steady of all these centuries. usually people divide up into the schools of thought. the remedies that the legislative remedies. one is more focused on the right , like the united nations -- the usa, and the other one is more focused on the behavior. so our legislation falls into the wave year. we don't go after the company's and ask for big amounts through compensation. so there are different kinds of laws. here the big compensations, i have not done a full analysis other has worked. for now companies -- sometimes is companies do a lot of talk of things to be clear that.
so that is law. in terms of other countries, the research, there are pretty good documentation is about this, which country is somewhat. pretty good, like malaysia has the legislation. in south asia, pakistan has the strongest. they also have amendments. bangladesh has amendments. afghanistan also as amendments. the scandinavian countries also have very strong legislation, and that is working well to. i also make a comment about the steady of all these centuries. usually people divide up into...
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anti miscegenation laws. at the same time immigration laws kept women from coming to the philippines. so for the farmworkers on the west coast in the 1930's and 40's and 50's it was a crime to have a family. many men stayed single their whole lives. why? so that they would just move from labor camps a labor camp working wherever it was the growers need the labor. snow, the program we have from 1942 to 1964, this said there were legal because they have visas. and that is what they say about guest workers today, but aides to a and ecb workers were the ones in the new workers that are part of this legislation that is on the table in both the house and the senate, but let's remember the history. they have to live behind barbed wire in camps. they could only grow where growers wanted them to go. people went out on strike they got deported. people did not even get all of their pay. people are still fighting to get the pay that was withheld from their checks in the 1950's and the early 1960's. and when people came t
anti miscegenation laws. at the same time immigration laws kept women from coming to the philippines. so for the farmworkers on the west coast in the 1930's and 40's and 50's it was a crime to have a family. many men stayed single their whole lives. why? so that they would just move from labor camps a labor camp working wherever it was the growers need the labor. snow, the program we have from 1942 to 1964, this said there were legal because they have visas. and that is what they say about...
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the paper was written -- after graduation from law school in 2008 and working two years in a law firm, logan returned to yale law school in 2010 as a scholar and began turning the paper into the book that we feature tonight. appropriate laid we have the professor with those to comment on the book. professor is a highly distinguished member of the yale law school factoid. is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles, and several of his books have been featured in previous book club series sponsored by our library. according to a recently published study by my colleague, fred sugar, professor eskridge is one of the most cited legal scholars in the known universe. just one or two of these have been cited more than her fetzer eskridge but that was a mistake. last but surely not least, he's a dynamic and innovative teacher and a wonderful mentor to young scholars like logan. without further ado i will turn it over to logan. >> thank you very much. i'd like to add that the professor is particularly fitting for this talk because he's a descendent of george eskridge who is the god
the paper was written -- after graduation from law school in 2008 and working two years in a law firm, logan returned to yale law school in 2010 as a scholar and began turning the paper into the book that we feature tonight. appropriate laid we have the professor with those to comment on the book. professor is a highly distinguished member of the yale law school factoid. is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles, and several of his books have been featured in previous book club...
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marsha coil, chief washington correspondent for the national law journal provides an inside look at the supreme court in the roberts court, the struggle for the constitution. military historian max. presents the history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism in invisible armies, an epic history of guerrilla warfare is national-security correspondent for the new york times talked about america's engage in a clandestine warfare. contributing correspondent for the new york times recounts the collapse of a $7 billion hedge fund in the billionaire's apprentice, the rise of the indian american elite and the fall of the galion hedge fund. for an extended list and links to other publications 2013 notable book selections visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> it also intel's you about his father who was a prominent freedom fighter, who spent many years in jail, cousin told me when i was in calcutta interviewing in 2011, joe was like a house to him. i will start with that. ever since he was born, he was like infant to his father. as handsome as his father with the same chiselled be online the gave b
marsha coil, chief washington correspondent for the national law journal provides an inside look at the supreme court in the roberts court, the struggle for the constitution. military historian max. presents the history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism in invisible armies, an epic history of guerrilla warfare is national-security correspondent for the new york times talked about america's engage in a clandestine warfare. contributing correspondent for the new york times recounts the collapse...
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we got these laws passed in 2010 and i will tell you why these laws are so important for us. one reason was after years of militancy women were being pushed back in the last decade and a half conlan this was the first come back, the first assertion from the side of women to regain public space or space in the family, that was celebrated throughout the country. the other reason, a long gap of legislation in pakistan, i don't count small laws that modify a little something but the last aggressive legislation package we had was in the mid 50s so it has been a very long time and open up space for women. this law was very important because it opened doors for many other legislations and just because that chemistry, that magical chemistry, it opened doors and we were able to get legislation passed in the last two years so that was a big wake-up for us and looking back, as to how it all started, that was the other part of the story which the book is about. that is my own story. it is an autobiographical case study. i was young and doing my graduate studies in the united states, and
we got these laws passed in 2010 and i will tell you why these laws are so important for us. one reason was after years of militancy women were being pushed back in the last decade and a half conlan this was the first come back, the first assertion from the side of women to regain public space or space in the family, that was celebrated throughout the country. the other reason, a long gap of legislation in pakistan, i don't count small laws that modify a little something but the last aggressive...
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to buy a new very well with our relationship he served more terms as president he declared martial law. a revolution was possible and then on dialysis. one was said of the naval forces had retired. john reed was the head of citicorp in the philippines. we had dinner with the president i decided i would wait until dinner was over. [laughter] use step down at the top of the game rather than and lose. i will win the election but nobody would believe that. step down while you can. he went on and the election was held there was uprising and it went to hell and to take him out by a helicopter where he died. how many insurance companies provide those services to the country? [laughter] there are many others. but the point* is to say how different we were in the valuable assets to the country. thousands of people made that possible. the second part is what happened. new york disgraced attorney general, than decided there was a lot on the books called the martin act enacted 1921 designed to go after bootleggers, it is silent as to intent. if you accuse somebody of a fraudulent act, he took the
to buy a new very well with our relationship he served more terms as president he declared martial law. a revolution was possible and then on dialysis. one was said of the naval forces had retired. john reed was the head of citicorp in the philippines. we had dinner with the president i decided i would wait until dinner was over. [laughter] use step down at the top of the game rather than and lose. i will win the election but nobody would believe that. step down while you can. he went on and...
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they did decide to import conspiracy and civilian law to military law. it is easy to prove as opposed to things they are conspiring to do more have done. for the same reason it has been disfavored as a war crime. the nuremberg tribunal rejected conspiracy conviction for the most part. the rationale is just that the nature of armed conflict is doing things in a group. since that is what the entire endeavour is, to unmask coordinated violence, making one participant guilty of the act of all the other participants would be too broad. that is the rationale. but what happened with the twenty-first century military commission project was several civilian crime such as conspiracy were imported into this military code but it raise problems from the get go because these military officers knew that that was not really a war crime. they had been taught was not, like mutilating bodies or the other things that traditionally have been war crimes. what has happened more recently is mr. on dom is back home in yemen driving a cab, his conviction was appealed because he w
they did decide to import conspiracy and civilian law to military law. it is easy to prove as opposed to things they are conspiring to do more have done. for the same reason it has been disfavored as a war crime. the nuremberg tribunal rejected conspiracy conviction for the most part. the rationale is just that the nature of armed conflict is doing things in a group. since that is what the entire endeavour is, to unmask coordinated violence, making one participant guilty of the act of all the...
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my grandfather was an educator, my grandmother, four of my aunts, a sister-in-law, a best friend, i grew up around teachers and having incredible respect for the difficult job they have every day and still surrounded by teachers to this day. because i have such respect to hold them in such regard regard, i have a tremendous relief for what they can do and the power they have. refuse to believe that if kids come from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing the schools can do. i roundly reject that notion. i believe when children are in the classrooms of to the effective teachers, despite the fact they face obstacles, they can achieve that the highest levels. we should aspire to nothing short to make sure every single kid is in the classroom every single day. no less than what we wanted for our own children for what we should want from our nation's kids. >> to spend the most per-capita per student, why is america's children 25 that of 30th in math, 17 in science and 14th in reading? >> when i sure those statistics they cringe. when i share the fact 25th in math and some of the co
my grandfather was an educator, my grandmother, four of my aunts, a sister-in-law, a best friend, i grew up around teachers and having incredible respect for the difficult job they have every day and still surrounded by teachers to this day. because i have such respect to hold them in such regard regard, i have a tremendous relief for what they can do and the power they have. refuse to believe that if kids come from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing the schools can do. i roundly...
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black and white together learning to effectively strategizing to change the law. the media denigrates activists but what could be more noble to dedicate your life to be a better place and to show how brave she was just go back a few months to the summer of 55 to the killing of emmett till the 14 year-old african-american boy in chicago. sent him to mississippi to be with his cousin and was strike at of bet in the middle of the night by a white mob and ends up in the bottom of the tallahassee river. when his body was dredged up and this had an influence who i talked about earlier the of little rock nine, because she was 14 when she's the integrated the central high school but when his body was sent back to chicago, his mother was not an activist, she was thrust into this with the agony of losing her only child she said she wanted the casket opened for the wake and the funeral and the world to see the ravages of racism, the duke -- brutality of bigotry and thousands streamed by than jack magazine and other black publication actually took photographs of the distended
black and white together learning to effectively strategizing to change the law. the media denigrates activists but what could be more noble to dedicate your life to be a better place and to show how brave she was just go back a few months to the summer of 55 to the killing of emmett till the 14 year-old african-american boy in chicago. sent him to mississippi to be with his cousin and was strike at of bet in the middle of the night by a white mob and ends up in the bottom of the tallahassee...
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>> [inaudible] >> it has to do with the passage of the other law. >> there you go, there you go. when they couldn't sell the middle row, they would take all of the middle row and start the process over again. so they started the whole thing over again. .. would >> all of the legal stuff, getting it together, but guess what, sometimes it's not too difficult. it is just where they run run out of subprime mortgages. that is what they were doing by the way. the guy who did it, he engaged in fraud who was an employee and he was rewarded as the employee of the year even after he was caught. after he was caught, he was awarded. so here is what happens. they are running out of mortgages. so they decided so i can explain to you right now, but that was how they did it. you guys know about this? how fantasy sports works? so they don't own the players, but they figured out how to use this as well. if they own them, then they literally pick this thing up as a series. fantasy mortgage, fantasy finance. exactly. so they say pretend you own these mortgages in las vegas and new york and these mor
>> [inaudible] >> it has to do with the passage of the other law. >> there you go, there you go. when they couldn't sell the middle row, they would take all of the middle row and start the process over again. so they started the whole thing over again. .. would >> all of the legal stuff, getting it together, but guess what, sometimes it's not too difficult. it is just where they run run out of subprime mortgages. that is what they were doing by the way. the guy who did...
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>> i am going to law school. >> get a good job experience. i hate to harp on a career but to many smart people are not getting good jobs because they don't show up for work on time or they don't like it. >> vinc you for coming. [applause] >> what happened in minneapolis april 1999? >> i start the book without meeting because it is so informative of the industry's attitude and strategies. 1999, the obesity epidemic was just beginning to emerge and with concern not only among consumer activist and nutritionists -- nutritionists the peoples throughout the industry that gathered together over a rare meeting and ceos of the top manufacturers of north america who got together at the minneapolis headquarters to talk about men other than the emerging crisis and up in front of them got none other than one of their own, michael mudd the vice president of kraft foods armed with 114 slides and laid at the feet of the ceos and presidents of these two companies' responsibility not only for the obesity crisis but the rising cases of diabetes, high blood pre
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this constitution, not common law. this constitution, not natural law. this constitution, not divine law. and if you are a reader of this constitution, then to quote walt whitman, our greatest constitutional poet, every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. so thanks for your patience. i'll now take your questions. [applause] >> go to the microphones if you want to have questions. i think you were first. [inaudible] -- the next supreme court opinion justice scalia or justice thomas were to write that madison has risen from the dead and appeared to them personally and that was behind -- or any other seven justices, and that was behind their opinion. what would your reaction be spent? i don't want to pick on justice scalia. that's a lie, i really do. he actually basically has said that in his opinion in his concurrence in citizens united. justice stevens writes a long descent and citizens united come using the mentors as he believe the framers of the constitution would not have wanted corporations to have the free speech rights that were given to th
this constitution, not common law. this constitution, not natural law. this constitution, not divine law. and if you are a reader of this constitution, then to quote walt whitman, our greatest constitutional poet, every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. so thanks for your patience. i'll now take your questions. [applause] >> go to the microphones if you want to have questions. i think you were first. [inaudible] -- the next supreme court opinion justice scalia or justice thomas...
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in fact the company knows you don't bowl, you don't cut your own law. it's merely covering the track so is that what it knows doesn't seem so spooky. all right. let me finish with another question. i actually like the way i'm finishing. are there are good things about statistics, scary things about statistics, and then there are places where we're watching unfold right now in real-time. this is some of the most interesting stuff. one of the questions at the end of the book is how can we identify and reward good teachers and schools? my wife is a public school math teacher. so she has has been involved in this realm. we need good schools and we need good teachers in order to have good schools. it follows logically we ought to reward good teachers and good schools and firing bad teachers and closing bad schools. how do we do that? test scores give us an objective measure of student performance, yet we know that some students will do much better on a standardized test for other reasons that have nothing to do with what is going on inside the classroom or t
in fact the company knows you don't bowl, you don't cut your own law. it's merely covering the track so is that what it knows doesn't seem so spooky. all right. let me finish with another question. i actually like the way i'm finishing. are there are good things about statistics, scary things about statistics, and then there are places where we're watching unfold right now in real-time. this is some of the most interesting stuff. one of the questions at the end of the book is how can we...
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so it was a very weak civil rights law, but it was the first one in about 84 years. and phil persuaded joe rou, who persuaded the naacp to accept this, and that's the way it got passed. c-span: he also was the first chairman of comsat? >> guest: yes. and during--actually, during the eisenhower period which you referred to, he had become involved in the desegregation of the little rock school, and he wanted to prevent eisenhower sen--sending the troops in there. and he worked very hard and somewhat frantically to try to get everybody together and get the school desegregated. and when it failed, which it o--was going to because governor faubus was standing firm against the idea of de--school desegregation. i think it threw him into his first depression in 1957, actually. c-span: what--the reason i mention the comsat thing--what is your opinion today about how involved people in the media ought to be with government? >> guest: i see you were talking about--just before he died, he was head of the communications satellite... c-span: right. >> guest: ... incorporated. and
so it was a very weak civil rights law, but it was the first one in about 84 years. and phil persuaded joe rou, who persuaded the naacp to accept this, and that's the way it got passed. c-span: he also was the first chairman of comsat? >> guest: yes. and during--actually, during the eisenhower period which you referred to, he had become involved in the desegregation of the little rock school, and he wanted to prevent eisenhower sen--sending the troops in there. and he worked very hard and...
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in terms of what i would tell obama calm, laws can be changed. why not adopt ideas and make college education deductible. they're all kinds of things we can do. i don't see any laws being changed that benefit the middle-class so give us a tax break or throw us a bone once in a while. that is nothing. he needs to change the structure. he needs to stop rigging the system basically. he has to put his rhetoric into action, into words. do you want to follow up? [inaudible] >> i understand that. write, right. [inaudible] >> personally i don't care that much. does someone in india deserve a job as much as my neighbor? shure, why not? if you look at it as a global economy why shouldn't that person benefit? so while i do support the american middle class and i think laws can be changed to help us i don't think it's terrible that people in other countries are doing well. i'm not going to argue with that. it is a wonderful thing. [inaudible] >> the concept of the middle-class and redistribution of the wealth versus less government and less regulation and al
in terms of what i would tell obama calm, laws can be changed. why not adopt ideas and make college education deductible. they're all kinds of things we can do. i don't see any laws being changed that benefit the middle-class so give us a tax break or throw us a bone once in a while. that is nothing. he needs to change the structure. he needs to stop rigging the system basically. he has to put his rhetoric into action, into words. do you want to follow up? [inaudible] >> i understand...
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school she was editor of the law journal. she could have become a highly paid lawyer out of yale but she went right into public-service becoming the assistant district attorneys serving the people of new york. she served in almost all levels of the judicial system including private practice as well as years on the federal bench. 2009 president barack obama nominated in the u.s. senate confirmed sonia sotomayor as a 111th justice of the u.s. supreme court. io give you sonia sotomayor. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] spee net after a guide to washington in 2009, i net to a whole bunch of texans from everywhere in this large state. and i have been repeatedly invited to visit. and when you get a new job you are a little busy? so i have not been able to come. but it is a tribute to the warmth of the people that has been confirmed in a few hours i have been here already. that this is the third city on my tour. first washington now my home and the home of my heart comedy york and i've been back and forth a lot between th
school she was editor of the law journal. she could have become a highly paid lawyer out of yale but she went right into public-service becoming the assistant district attorneys serving the people of new york. she served in almost all levels of the judicial system including private practice as well as years on the federal bench. 2009 president barack obama nominated in the u.s. senate confirmed sonia sotomayor as a 111th justice of the u.s. supreme court. io give you sonia sotomayor. [cheers...
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yesterday saying most people see health insurance premiums go up as a result of the present health care law. personal budget officer, douglas holtz-eakin and north dakota congressman, said they talked about the findings for just over an hour. >> former member of congress come on behalf of center forward, we welcome you to our program this morning carried as you know, center forward has existed for three years. moral about discussion and across the aisle conversation in this hyper partisan atmosphere that we have up on the hill here. we think it is important for an organizations like center forward to bring discussions together over issues that are currently important to the american public, import to those policymakers on the hill as well. we view our role as providing information in today's providing information as well. we bring together another smaller programs members of congress on both sides of the aisle, both sides of the hill. we bring together staff, indict associations, not-for-profit corporations, union representatives as well to come in the topical conversations. we appreciate t
yesterday saying most people see health insurance premiums go up as a result of the present health care law. personal budget officer, douglas holtz-eakin and north dakota congressman, said they talked about the findings for just over an hour. >> former member of congress come on behalf of center forward, we welcome you to our program this morning carried as you know, center forward has existed for three years. moral about discussion and across the aisle conversation in this hyper partisan...
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building extra suites so the young adult children can live at home with their own insurance the in-laws week is now being built for the children so this problem will be with us for quite some time. the hall motorship rate in your report -- home ownership rate went from 64% at 69% and nobody said it was crazy at the time and now here we are 2013 it exploded down as 65 where is it going? is it a permanent had new normal or will let bounce around? >> guest: so controversial but my housing call if you look at the correlation between home prices with any other variable was home ownership rate suggests that simple supply demand dynamic was close as 70% now hovering around 65% you always think it will overshoot the to the down side it is taking town but the foreclosure is down but you still have high inventory the mortgage market is now working with -- not workingman you have those lenders that want to make mortgage loans so how can it possibly go up? i think directionally could only go down by a boy is believed the affordability index not a lot of people credit the bottom title think it tells
building extra suites so the young adult children can live at home with their own insurance the in-laws week is now being built for the children so this problem will be with us for quite some time. the hall motorship rate in your report -- home ownership rate went from 64% at 69% and nobody said it was crazy at the time and now here we are 2013 it exploded down as 65 where is it going? is it a permanent had new normal or will let bounce around? >> guest: so controversial but my housing...
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one of the jersey law enforcement agent he said you can't do that here. that didn't happen in this case. johnstown just let go. n.y.p.d., and now? they can do whatever they want. yes, sir. [inaudible] >> all right, okay. you have to raise a stink about it on the spot. you can't let it go. you have to fail on a supervisor. depends whether you on the street and demand records the names and follow up. that's really all you can do. no one knows they exist. so very few civilians actually end up there. it's called the quality assurance division. it's a bold street in brooklyn. it is a small unit and that is their job is to audit. [inaudible] >> you can go to court, sure. any other questions? >> i just want to know what your hope was. [inaudible] i was just telling a story about another oversight fee. it's called the commission to combat police corruption. the schema was in the early 90s about cops running truck dealers. mayor giuliani created this organization through an executive order and made a big deal out of it and bad this agency is going to stop corrupti
one of the jersey law enforcement agent he said you can't do that here. that didn't happen in this case. johnstown just let go. n.y.p.d., and now? they can do whatever they want. yes, sir. [inaudible] >> all right, okay. you have to raise a stink about it on the spot. you can't let it go. you have to fail on a supervisor. depends whether you on the street and demand records the names and follow up. that's really all you can do. no one knows they exist. so very few civilians actually end...
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school and ended up in law school in washington d.c. and i was there for two years, and i attribute being a law student for two years, i attribute that to getting me into the book business. after two years i decided i gotta, i gotta go into the book business. i don't want to be a lawyer. and the reason -- what i found myself doing is he mentioned the saw vel bookstore. i found myself wandering the bookstore more than i was wandering the law libraries. at that time there was also the original olsons in georgetown that i loved going to. and i had the good fortune of living just two blocks from kramer books and afterwords which had just opened, and they had just opened the afterwords part of it. and it was the first time i got in my mind the idea that i would want to do maybe a bookstore/cafÉ. and it took me about ten years of being in the book business before i opened our first cafÉ which is attached to our coral gables store. and so i realize now that a lot of my bookselling roots came from my experience here in washington, d.c. and th
school and ended up in law school in washington d.c. and i was there for two years, and i attribute being a law student for two years, i attribute that to getting me into the book business. after two years i decided i gotta, i gotta go into the book business. i don't want to be a lawyer. and the reason -- what i found myself doing is he mentioned the saw vel bookstore. i found myself wandering the bookstore more than i was wandering the law libraries. at that time there was also the original...
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these are the crimes that the supreme court used to make the law, to shape the law, define the law on capital punishment. when we agreed on that we said, you know, that's it. and pun lister changed it to legal crime and landmark cases. the fact we agreed on it. we have to admit it was an improvement. >> guest: i don't know. [laughter] but i think it works. coming up with that theme the unifying theme was the hardest part for us. we made several false starts over the years, we must admit. >> guest: there was another book called "murder in the supreme court" that is a novel about a murder in the supreme court or in the supreme court. and we were concerned about that, well, you know, we are not going let it get in the way. it's "murder at the supreme court "and how they view punishment for it. it's appropriate. i think it was a good title and capture what the book is about. these are all lethal crimes. what the court said about them produced landmark decisions. >> host: and, you know, i have to say i think it looks neat about the title and the way the book is done with the qr code and th
these are the crimes that the supreme court used to make the law, to shape the law, define the law on capital punishment. when we agreed on that we said, you know, that's it. and pun lister changed it to legal crime and landmark cases. the fact we agreed on it. we have to admit it was an improvement. >> guest: i don't know. [laughter] but i think it works. coming up with that theme the unifying theme was the hardest part for us. we made several false starts over the years, we must admit....
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there were at least 40 notices on stanford's bulletin board at the law school, from law firms in california saying stanford law graduates, we have this, we would be happy to talk to you about job opportunities, give us a call. there were 40 different messages from different law firms in california on the bulletin board. so i called every one of those notices. not a single one would even give me an interview. i said why? they said we don't hire women. and that was the way it was. i got out of law school i just about 1952, but isn't that amazing? they wouldn't even talk. and i really did need to get a job. [laughter] i heard that the county attorney and san mateo county california, the county seat is in redwood city, had one lawyer on the staff so i thought that's encouraging. i will go see. i made an appointment. in california they lack the county attorney, and so they are always glad handers and he gave me an appointment to see them and they went to meet him. he was very nice, very agreeable. and he said he had indeed had a woman on staff at one time, and she did well and he would be happy
there were at least 40 notices on stanford's bulletin board at the law school, from law firms in california saying stanford law graduates, we have this, we would be happy to talk to you about job opportunities, give us a call. there were 40 different messages from different law firms in california on the bulletin board. so i called every one of those notices. not a single one would even give me an interview. i said why? they said we don't hire women. and that was the way it was. i got out of...
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>> going to law school this year. >> get lots of good job experience. i hate to keep harping on the clear stuff but too many smart people not getting good jobs and losing good jobs because they don't show up for work on time. get a good job there will be some groundwork. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's web site, villasenor.com. >> this system of mass incarceration is so deeply rooted in our social, political and economic structure is not going to just fade away. out of side. we have a major upheaval, fairly radical shift in our public consciousness. i know there are many people today who will say there is no hope of ending mass incarceration in america. there is no hope, pick another issue. just as many people were resigned to jim crow and the south, that is a shame but just the way that it is, so many people today pusey million cycling in and out about prisons and jails are an unfortunate but in alterable fact of american life. i am quite certain that dr. king would not have been so resigned so i believe
>> going to law school this year. >> get lots of good job experience. i hate to keep harping on the clear stuff but too many smart people not getting good jobs and losing good jobs because they don't show up for work on time. get a good job there will be some groundwork. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's web site, villasenor.com. >> this system of mass incarceration is so deeply rooted in our social, political and economic...
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>> i teach criminal law and the law school. i also teach over in the college of schoo school of public affai. >> what do you teach there? >> their i.t. to law and society. spent what sparked you to write "how to succeed in college"? >> that's a great question. i've been teaching for over 20 years and i felt i was beginning to see some of the same problems with students over and over and over again. things like not understanding how to cite material and inadvertently getting themselves in trouble with plagiarism. freshman economy and and see this great new world that is college and take it and give everything of what's in the classroom. and i regularly been a my students with hands, and i began to see i was in the same e-mail out year after year and i thought you know what, time to write the book, that way i can just say buy the books i don't have to keep sending e-mails out. >> what's the best thing parents can do to prepare their kids speak with the are a couple things parents can do. so one is the academic side. the best thin
>> i teach criminal law and the law school. i also teach over in the college of schoo school of public affai. >> what do you teach there? >> their i.t. to law and society. spent what sparked you to write "how to succeed in college"? >> that's a great question. i've been teaching for over 20 years and i felt i was beginning to see some of the same problems with students over and over and over again. things like not understanding how to cite material and...